Summary:
- Marvel has officially confirmed their Young Avengers project, thanks to the ending scene of The Marvels.
- Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel), Kate Bishop, and Cassie Lang (Stature) are the first three members of the team.
- Other members, such as Wiccan, Speed or Hulkling, are already parts of the current MCU, waiting to be recruited.
Marvel has officially hinted at a Young Avengers project brewing within the MCU, as revealed in The Marvels. As legacy superheroes such as Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor are slowly stepping away from the spotlight, a younger, hungrier bunch of superheroes are expected to take on the lead.
From the onset of Phase 4, Marvel has been steadily introducing younger super-powered individuals. Characters such as Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man have already established themselves as standalone icons within the MCU. However, the introduction of several new young characters has sparked widespread speculation about a potential Young Avengers film.
Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios’ president, stirred the pot further after Cassie Lang was recast in Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania. He mentioned
“Well, sure…so where and when we would see the evolution of that? I don’t know. And certainly – taking our cue from the comics as we always do – that’s why we wanted Cassie, a very young Cassie in this movie, to be inspired by her father. Just planting seeds.”
Indeed, as DCU is prepping up with its Teen Titans project, Marvel will also need to establish their young superhero group soon to match their counterpart. And so far, Marvel has successfully planted the seeds to kickstart the Young Avengers in the future, with at least three members confirmed for the team, thanks to The Marvels.
In the last sequence of the 2023 film, Iman Vellani‘s Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, meets up with Kate Bishop, portrayed by Hailee Steinfeld, to discuss assembling a new team “of remarkable young people” (I think I’ve heard this line somewhere). Ms. Marvel is poised to be the Young Avengers’ rallying force this time, replacing Iron Lad from the comics.
Kate Bishop is certainly the second member of the group, and the two plan to recruit Cassie Lang afterward.
Marvel Comics fans would know that both Kamala, Bishop, and Cassie are all parts of the Young Avengers in the comic, as Ms. Marvel, Kate Bishop, and Stature, respectively. In the comics, the team was found by Iron Lad – a young Kang variant, with Eli Bradley, Wiccan, and Hulkling joining at the start. Later on, Speed (Wiccan’s brother), Cassie, Bishop, America Chavez, Kid Loki, Vision, Marvel Boy, and Prodigy all joined the team.
Interestingly, the MCU already introduced the majority of these characters scattering around recent movies and TV series, such as Chavez and the Maximoff brothers in Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness, Hulking in She-Hulk, Cassie in Ant-Man 3, and so on. Therefore, Marvel already has enough ingredients to cook the most delicious Young Avengers movie we can expect.
